Sadly it is not that exciting. It fixes a bug on macOS which prevented ListViews from correctly having a background color that included an alpha view besides 1.
Tic-tac-toe Collection released for iOS
You can now enjoy all the features of Tic-tac-toe Collection, including cross-platform multiplayer on your iPhone and iPad.
New Tic-tac-toe Collection website
Tic-tac-toe Collection has a new website:
https://www.tictactoecollection.app/
I switched from using WordPress.com to using a static site generator, specifically Hugo.
ListView improvements in Xamarin Forms
Since becoming open source, it has become possible to find out potential upcoming features in Xamarin Forms by just poking around the active branches in the repository (macOS support was visible in the repo before any announcement).
One of them is lv2spike.
From just reading the commit messages, it seems this is a new CollectionView, based on UICollectionView for iOS and RecyclerView for Android.
This is something that has been needed for a while, but is a big enough undertaking that I understand why it has taken a while. After all the branch suggests this is still just a spike.
There are quite a lot of feature requests for the Xamarin Forms ListView that are just not possible (like this one for horizontal layout) mainly because the iOS implementation is based on UITableView. This will open lots of possibilities. My biggest concern is that despite the push forward with features, Xamarin Forms is accruing bugs even faster, and with the expanded platform support this could just get worse…
Tic-tac-toe Collection release on Android
Tic-tac-toe Collection is now available on Android on the Play Store.
Additionally, I’ve started a new blog to host random content about the game (initially just release notes, but I actually keep thinking of interesting things to write).
Tic-tac-toe Collection open beta
For various reasons I decided to write a Tic Tac Toe game in Xamarin Forms.
At the moment it supports variable board sizes, variable win line size (so it implicitly supports Gomoku) and a few custom rules like misère, a pie rule and disallowed overlines. It currently functions on Android, iOS and Windows, but is only released on Android for now.
Apart from experimenting with various features of Xamarin Forms (as well as managing Nuget packages), my goal is to try and add all the options. Features I’m planning:
- Ultimate Tic-tac-toe
- Quantum Tic-tac-toe
- 3D (and 4D) Tic-tac-toe
- Online multiplayer
- Order and chaos
- Wild Tic-tac-toe
Download Tic-tac-toe Collection from the Google Play Store.
[SOLVED] Unable to cast object of type ‘Xamarin. Forms. Xaml. ElementNode’ to type ‘Xamarin. Forms. Xaml. ValueNode’.
When writing XAML for Xamarin Forms, you may across the error:
Unable to cast object of type 'Xamarin.Forms.Xaml.ElementNode' to type 'Xamarin.Forms.Xaml.ValueNode'
This is nearly always caused by assigning a value to an event in XAML, instead of specifying a method name.
A common example is:
<Switch Toggled="{Binding IsToggled}" />
Toggled is the name of an event. The property that was probably intended is called IsToggled.
<Switch IsToggled="{Binding IsToggled}" />
